Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771)

Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 501-755 : 570

Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771) . Reise Prov. Russ. Reichs., 1:454.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Ulianovsk Obi, middle Volga River, Ulianovsk (formerly Simbirsk) .

DISTRIBUTION: C Europe to Lake Baikal, south to Thrace, Caucasus, and Tien Shan Mtns; Amur River through Korea to E Xizang and E Yunnan, W Sichuan, Fujiau, and Taiwan ( China); Quelpart Isl ( Korea).

SYNONYMS: albostriatus, caucasicus , chejuensis , coreae, gloveri, harti , henrici, insulaemus, istrianus, kahmanni, karelicus, maculatus , mantchuricus, nikolskii, ningpoensis , ognevi, pallescens, pallidior, rubens , septentrionalis , tianschanicus , volgensis.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Apodemus . Karyological data reported by Kang and Koh (1976), Koh (1982), and Lungeanu et al. (1986). Chromatic, morphological, and biochemical information presented by Wang (1985b), Zhao and Lu (1986), and Liu et al. (1991) in context of subspecific relationships. Age and Geographic variation in Korean, Polish, and Yugolavian populations as reflected by results of morphometric analyses documented by Sikorski (1982), Koh (1983, 1991), and Krystufek (1985b). European and Palaearctic populations reviewed by Böhme (1978b) and Karaseva et al. (1992).